In the years I've been using haml my experience has been exactly the opposite. Haml discourages excessive code in the template, reduces noise, makes the documen

In the years I've been using haml my experience has been exactly the opposite. Haml discourages excessive code in the template, reduces noise, makes the document structure immediately obvious and places emphasis on classes, ids, element names and attributes, making it easier to work with CSS and Javascript. As a result, its benefits become even more obvious as templates become larger and more complex.